Hello, beautiful.
(This is the cover of my novel—designed by the stupendous Natalie Olsen. Say hi to it in person on September 10, would you?)
So excited for this! Yay Mike!
This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like. Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York. This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary. Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank. A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.
god damn
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// Excerpt from Blue Like Jazz//
My lovely friend Monica read this for us at our wedding almost 6 years ago. I was reminded of it yesterday. Still timely and true after all this
time.
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I will give you this, my love, and I will not barter or bargain any longer. I will love you, as sure as He loved me. I will discover what I can discover and though you remain a mystery, save God’s own knowledge, what I disclose of you I will keep in the warmest chamber of my heart, the very chamber where God has stowed Himself in me. And I will do this to my death, and to death it may bring me.
I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again.
God risked himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.
-Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
I love that it smells like the first day of softball season today.
make me feel. everything. all of it. now.: Letter To All The Teenage Girls: You're Awesome And This Is Why
Dear teenage girl:
I want to take a minute to write down some words for you, because I feel like it’s really important that someone says these things.
In the grown up world, “teenage girls” are kind of a lame stereotype, and I want to say that I’m sorry. You seem to be a demographic that is…
I too, still feel like a teenager at times.
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—Can we interest you in an All-Clucking Version Of Lumineers’ “Ho Hey” (feat: Jimmy Fallon, Blake Shelton & Nick Offerman)
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make me feel. everything. all of it. now.: “I am a feminist.
As long as women’s natural body hair is called...
“I am a feminist.
As long as women’s natural body hair is called disgusting and inappropriate while men’s isn’t, I am a feminist.
As long as I can’t watch an episode of a popular sitcom without having to sit through multiple sexist comments or “jokes”, I am a feminist.
As long as women have to…
Do what you want,for you'll be criticized regardless.
You're damned if you do, damned if you don't.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
